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bonelight’s Standard Farm Spring 01 Plan

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so there’s not a lot of good commentary to do yet on bonelight’s farm because things are just getting going but I thought I’d layout the general sort of way Spring is going to go...

so for the Farm, what bonelight has done is make one 6x6 square farm plot to grow crops in while clearing the rest of the farm of rocks and sticks and trees and bushes. I’ll be mostly focusing on growing the crops for the first Community Center Bundle (which isn’t a thing yet) so there’s one green bean plant and a grow some potatoes, kale, and cauliflower, but the main focus is on parsnips because I’ll need 5 gold star parsnips ideally. It may not happen! It’ll be ok. But crops are mostly for money and bundles.

for the Social aspect, bonelight is going to try to make friends with everyone but is going to be focusing on developing close relationships with the eligible ladies in the valley. beyond that, it’ll depend on if I develop any kind of following or not, haha, I plan to let the audience participate in some decisions especially on the romantic front if there a community happens. If not I shall make my own choice though that won’t be in the first year!

for mining, I tend to want to go hard on mining fast just because of the tool upgrades and crafting...as well as the gem collection. this doesn’t actually translate to doing so in terms of what other more serious gamers might do because I will always be also focusing on everything else too.I don’t have a set goal beyond get that ore! You will notice I put a chest by the elevator. I keep my sword in there and at first also some stuff like monster drops or other things I don’t need on the farm just yet. I switch out my tools for the sword before going in to save on backpack space.

foraging is big for me in the beginning too because it’s free food/money!

I probably will not do much fishing this spring. I don’t think I did any on mosslight’s twitch farm actually, not til summer. I don’t personally find it worth it since I don’t enjoy fishing and especially not the first rod which I won’t use--I’ll shamelessly start on the training rod until I can get the fiberglass rod. I did my time on the first one back on my first play-through on desktop years ago.

so Spring is all about clearing out the farm, growing some crops for food and bundles, getting as much ore as possible, and making friends!

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mossquill’s Standard layout farm on Twitch

a 10/11 stream is here for as long as twitch keeps it

so mossquill is in fall of year two and I thought I’d explain a bit what’s going on...

mossquill’s farm has always been kinda going to be my sort of go to base farm on my new tablet, and I am sort of just streaming it because...because.

anyway so I am here doing basically my standard thing with my farms because yeah I have that hahaha in this case that means that in the above stream I have just finished the bundles. I plan to go slower on other streams maybe but for my sort of comfort farm I want that iridium maker soon please grandpa.

the iridium maker is important because I don’t combat any more than I have to and thus never actually do anything in the caves in the desert...

in general this is how I do my Standard farms. they aren’t all exactly the same and some things may get shifted around a little but the part below the house is fields, the parts on either side of the greenhouse almost to the pond are animal pastures and buildings.

I give my animals a lot of space because I like them. I keep less to a building then makes sense because I can’t keep track of them if there’s too many and I can get weird about petting them all the same amount. I don’t always but it’s a thing, so, for this kind of farm where there’s space, I have two barns and two coops. The barns each have a white cow, a brown cow, a sheep, a goat, and a pig.

I don’t have a clever naming system in this game because I felt weird streaming the names I usually pick since those tend to be fandom clusters and I do nottttt want to open that can of worms with the wider internet. I do intend to maybe do something less random with subsequent farms but idk.

my fruit trees are down by the pond. I have my usual tap tree set up a little different on this farm, I always do the whole surround them with paths thing but I have them all along the bottom here instead of in multiple rows. this frees up some space for other things eventually. maybe.

I also have my whole green house thing in progress with trees along the side, the crops I grow inside are the cactus in a border around the whole space, and then coffee ancient fruit, starfruit, and spice berries in the middle. That’s not done yet at this point but I’m working on it!

Also for my personal comfort farm I always marry Sebastian. We’re not there yet but things are going well...

for my other farms I will explore other dating and marriage options but this farm is ultimately just gonna be my personal happy place so we’re sticking with Sebastian. He mends fences just fine. And is cute with frogs.

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bonelight’s Standard Layout Farm on youtube

first two days of this farm are here (one, two, three, four)

bonelight is my youtube farmer (twitch is mossquill).

the first two days feature a lot of meeting the towns people and my usual attempts to destroy all the bushes I can in search of the very free wild seeds.

since I only do low stress gaming, I am not fussed by trying to do anything as fast as possible and even forgot to go see Willy on the second day, which is the kind of thing you can expect. I’ll get there eventually...

there’s not much to say at this stage, my early game strategy is just to wander around cleaning up the farm and meeting people and foraging a bit.

we’ll develop bonelight’s character as we go (....she’ll be just like all my farmers really...I...like doing the same things over and over...which may explain why I love this game...)

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Stardew Valley Overview

This may seem a bit different from ancient city builders from the late 90s, but there is weirdly a tenuous connection: Stardew Valley was inspired by a late 90s nintendo game I played on gameboy color, called Harvest Moon. So while this is a different game, many aspects were very familiar to me and the nostalgia factor is still strong. Planning out a farm is not much like planning a city but if you squint in the dark while hanging upside down there are a few similar features?

If you don’t know, despite the popularity especially in 2020, Stardew Valley is a farming simulator with additional social aspects including dating options. The main character is the grandchild of the late owner of the farm who quits their job in the city to fix up and run the farm while (potentially) marking friends with the local people. There are community events and a mild conflict between the JojJo cooperation and the local economy which the farmer can take sides in. There are plenty of choices to be made and a lot of freedom in gameplay. There are 12 locals available for dating and even ultimately marriage, 6 women and 6 men. However, neither marriage nor dating are required and there is no end deadline to the game.

I play this one on mobile for streaming purposes though I have and have play the desktop version. I prefer toe mobile version for streaming because of the auto-combat feature--I have serious anxiety and having to do combat myself is far less relaxing (and is why everyone is glad I am not doing commentary for the desktop version haha that would involve too much panicked noises for anyone’s ears).

Also, playing it on small handheld device...well, my tablet is no gameboy but still, it’s more nostalgic!...ish...